CS202 Lecture Notes - Nonverbal Communication, High-Heeled Footwear, Social Distance
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Broken into two categories: functional (clothing protect body) and social delivers social messages to ourselves and other) Transmit social or cultural messages about the self and others. Therefore, it has often been compared to language. Dress codes, certain times and places for things. Yes we put it together in certain ways can"t wear three shoes. Yes, you can"t put certain colours together, as well, appropriateness. This creates certain messages: high-heels with skirt= clubbing. There is a limit to the language metaphor. There are certain encoding messages, but there are only a limited number of combinations, and expressions that produces the language. You cannot combine any clothing, ex a woman cannot go out shirtless. Clothing is a closed code, and a conservative code (it maintains over time). Clothing acts as a subtle way of maintaining a given group"s identity. Intimate: in northern european societies this is generally 15 to 45 cm.
